Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-17
Greenwood,s City 81 the Dead.
THERE NEARLY QUARTER OF A MILLION BODIES
HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED.


WHERE NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION BODIES
HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED.
New York Letter to Kansas City Star.
Imagine that you are In Greenwood Cemetery.
It Is big place Of about 600 acres with - miles
OF carriage track, Is miles OF pathway, $4,000
burial lots, and 240 900 persons have been buried
here since 1s4O. It is beautiful place, you see;
naturally full OF gulches and knolls all OF which
nave been utilized to their fullest extent by time
ana money. IL has eight lakes each with foun-
lain and the graSsjust feel OF It's soft as green
ones, all trimmed and trained to their best be-
navlor, put you viii notice the fewest flowers you
ever ever saw IN cemetery. 1t looks as though those
ment as MOWERS. See that purple hydrangea. First
you ever saw? Same with me. That DELL tolls all day.
ana that, with the suggestive click of the chisel,
mlngiing with the chirp OF the grasshoppers and
the grind OF the carriage wheels, are the sounds
which break the stiffness OF this vast city OF the
dead.
This huge receiving tomb is capable OF holding
5000 bodies. Beecher is lying in there now wait
Ing for the completion OF the subscription list.
recently died of disease similar to that which
carried on Grant. Here is monument erected
6 6s an OLD sea captain fifteen years before his
death. See that monument like q temple? I for
got whose 1t is, but It was made by the prisoners
at Sing Sing, and is magnificent piece Of work
owned by the family before the cemetery was in
corporated. SO with the large round lot below,
where the row OF headStones Is ranged. That was
When the church had to be moved the bodies were
collected In one spot and three stones and this
monument erected to their memory.
here Is the most expensive and at the same time
Ine most interesting monument on the grounds.
It Is that OF young lady who, on her seventeenth
birthday, was thrown from her carriage and killed
while on her way to a ball. In the monument Is
cut nfe-sfzed likeness OF the girl, representing
her just as She was arrayed for the fatal festival
The lace, ribbons, flowers and jewels OF her COS
tune are faithfully reproduced in the alabaSter
a cost OF "a, 900. Here Is monument and bronze
bust OF Horace Greeley, the pedestal representing
q rough plough, a pen and scroll. and the young
Greeley at his printing case. There is the monu-
men ment OF the Browns, bankers six OF whom were
lost together at sea- 1t Is descriptive OF the sad
catastrophe. The fremen's monument is sur
mounted by figure OF a fireman holding little
Child In his arms and things connected with the
department are illustrated on its base. This
the f0ster-mother OF Harry Howard, eX-chief epgi-
neer OF the fire department. and represents her as
adopting him when saved from burning building
as a child.
But the most unique thing In interment is that
OF hve maiden ladieS-sisterS-whoSe ages ranged
from one hundred to one hundred and seventeen
other The lot In which they are buried is called
the "Old Maids Plot" This tomb OF C. X. Garri-
son, ex-mayor OF San Francisco, is a beautiful
thing In Oriental design. This wonderful monu-
pluck. When young fellow he walked through
the streets OF New York wanting meal. Passing
by some new building, by some accident a hod-
carrier fen on dead at his feet: Hungry George
ment Is an object OF interest in any cemetery but
this OF Greenwood out-tops anything ever saw.
The huge spire is effective in black and gray.
Figures representing the four divisions Of the
fence Is made OF guns with fixed bayonets A sad
sight Is this large circular lot In which buried
los unacceptable victims OF the Brooklyn Thea
ter fire In 1875 Greenwood is great museum OF
mortality.